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1 Freyung Passage 4 Freud Museum 6 Liechtenstein 7 Josephinum
Garden Palace
Map 2 D5 & 5 B2. % Herrengasse. Berggasse 19. Map 1 C3. Tel 3191596. Währinger Strasse 25/1. Map 1 C4.
@ 1A, 2A. % Schottentor. @ 40A. v D. Fürstengasse 1. Map 1 C2. Tel 4016026001. % Schottentor.
Open 9am–6pm daily. & Tel 3195767153. % Friedensbrücke. v 37, 38, 40, 41, 42. Open 10am–
Facing the Freyung is the ∑ freud-museum.at 6pm Fri & Sat. Closed public hols.
Italian­style palazzo known as @ 40A. v D. Open for guided tours & 7 ∑ josephinum.ac.at
only (call ahead for details). 9
the Palais Ferstel, dating from No. 19 Berggasse differs little ∑ palaisliechtenstein.com
1860 and taking its name from from any other 19th­century The ardent reformer Joseph II
the architect, Heinrich von apartment building in Vienna, Designed by Domenico (see p30) established this military
Ferstel. The glass­roofed yet it is now one of the city’s Martinelli and completed in surgical institute. Designed by
Freyung Passage, lined with most famous addresses. 1692, the summer palace of Isidor Canevale in 1785, it is
elegant shops, converges on The father of psychoanalysis, the Liechtenstein family now now a medical museum. Some
a small courtyard of which the Sigmund Freud, lived, worked houses the art collection of rooms contain memorabilia
centrepiece is a many­tiered and received patients here Prince Hans-Adam II von und from the 19th century, when
statue portraying the lissome from 1891 until his departure zu Liechtenstein. Behind the Vienna was a leading centre
mermaid of the Danube from Vienna in 1938. imposing Palladian exterior, for medical research, but the Detail on the Votivkirche façade
holding a fish. It then emerges Façade of the Schottenkirche The flat housed Freud’s notable features include the main attraction is the collection
on Herrengasse. As an example family as well as his practice. Neo-Classical library, and of wax anatom ical models in 1784, the Narrenturm (Fools’
of civilized urban amenities, the doors. Opposite is the Austria The catalogue lists 420 items the Hercules Hall and grand commis sioned by the emperor Tower) is a former lunatic
passage is a great success. It Fountain: its four figures of memorabilia on display, staircase with their magnificent from Tuscan artists. asylum designed by Isidor
also has an entrance into one of symbolize the major rivers of including letters and books, frescoes. The art collection Canevale. The tower now
Vienna’s grandest coffee houses, the Habsburgs’ lands. Behind furnishings, photographs centres on the Baroque, with houses the Museum for
the Café Central (see pp60–63). is the former Schotten kirche documenting Freud’s long a special focus on Rubens, 8 Narrenturm Pathological Anatomy, which
priory, unkindly known as the life, and various antiquities. and numerous paintings and Spitalgasse 2. Map 1 B3. Tel 52177606. includes a reconstruction of
chest­of­drawers house. The flat was quickly sculptures by German, Dutch % Schottentor. v 5, 33. Open 10am– an apothecary’s shop and wax
abandoned when the Nazis and Italian masters from the 6pm Wed, 10am–1pm Sat. Closed models. The few ground-floor
forced Freud to leave the city Renaissance through to public hols & ^ rooms open to the public only
3 Schottenkirche where he had lived almost all the 19th century. The palace show a small part of what is one
his life, but, fortunately, it has stands in an extensive English- What used to be the of the world’s most compre hen-
Schottenstift, Freyung 6. Map 2 D5 &
5 B2. Tel 53498600. % Schottentor, been successfully preserved. style garden, designed in Allgemeines Krankenhaus, sive pathology and anatomy
Herrengasse. @ 1A. Museum: the 19th century. founded by Joseph II (see p30) collections. Serious students
Open 11am–5pm Tue–Sat. 5 Servitenkirche can enrol on a guided tour of
Closed Sun & hols. & ^ the corridors upstairs.
Servitengasse 9. Map 1 C3.
Despite its name (Scottish Tel 31761950. % Rossauer Lände.
church), this 1177 monastic Open 7–9am & 6–7pm Mon–Fri, 9 Votivkirche
foundation was established 7–9am & 5–8pm Sat, 7am–noon & Rooseveltplatz 8. Map 1 C4 & 5 A1.
by Irish Benedic tines. The 5–8pm Sun. & 7 Tel 4061192. % Schottentor. v D, 1,
adjoining buildings have a 71. Open 9am–1pm, 4–6pm Tue–Sat,
fine medieval art collection Although off the beaten 9am–1pm Sun. & 7 side entrance.
that includes the famous track, this church (1651–77)
Danube Mermaid’s Fountain (1861) in Schotten altarpiece (1475). is well worth a visit. Inside, a After a deranged tailor tried
Freyung Passage The church has been altered riot of Baroque decoration to assassinate Emperor Franz
repeatedly and has undergone includes elaborate stucco Joseph on 18 February 1853,
2 Freyung extensive renovation. Today it ornamentation, a fine wrought­ a collection was made to pay
presents a rather drab Neo­ iron screen near the entrance, for a new church to be built
Map 2 D5 & 5 B2. % Herrengasse. Classical façade, but with a rich and an exuberant pulpit (1739), opposite the Mölker-Bastei,
Kinsky Palace: Open 10am–5pm
Mon–Fri. Baroque interior. partly by Balthasar Moll. where the attempt had been
made. The architect was Heinrich
The Freyung is a curiously von Ferstel, who began the
shaped “square”. Its name Freud’s Theories church in 1856 though it was
derives from the right of sanct­ Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was not not dedicated until 1879. Many
uary granted to the monks of only the founder of the techniques of of the church’s chapels are
the Schottenkirche. Fugitives psychoanalysis, but a theorist who wrote dedicated to Austrian regiments
from persecution who entered many essays and books expounding and military heroes. The finest
the area were safe from arrest. his contentious ideas. Modern concepts monument is the Renaissance
No. 4 is the Kinsky Palace (1713– such as the subconscious, ego, sarcophagus tomb of Niklas
16), by Johann Lukas von sublimation and the Oedipus complex, Salm, who commanded
Hildebrandt (see p154). Next evolved from Freudian theories. Freud Austria’s forces during the 1529
door is the Porcia Palace of posited different structural systems Turkish siege. It is located in the
1546, one of the oldest in within the human psyche that, if chapel just west of the north
Vienna, though much altered. At seriously out of balance, result in transept. Visitors should
No. 3 is the Harrach Palace; the emotional or mental disturbance. note the attractive lacy
interior has some fine Rococo Wooden Pietà in Gothic style (1470) in the Servitenkirche steeples and spire.

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